Paul Adlerstein began teaching at Colorado College in the Fall of 2018. He received his PhD in History from Georgetown University in 2014. Paul previously taught at the Harvard University History and Literature concentration.
Paul's teaching and research broadly examines politics, especially politics as waged through social movements. At Colorado College, Paul teaches courses on social and political movements that examine how these forces organize, strategize, and act to create changes that better people's lives. He also teaches survey courses on 20th century U.S. history, on the Great Depression and New Deal era, on international political economy, and various aspects of the Global Cold War.
Paul's research focuses on internationalist progressive and left organizations and movements, particularly in the 20th Century. His first book, No Globalization Without Representation: U.S. Activists and Global Inequality, traces a network of activists and advocates who confronted the rise of global neoliberalism from the late 1970s through the "Battle of Seattle" anti-WTO protests in late 1999. The book was selected to inaugurate a new series for the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Paul is currently working on a new book that examines the broad and deep history of U.S. progressive/left internationalism from the founding of the republic to the present. It is currently titled Our Country Is The World: A Global History of the U.S. Left. Paul also serves on the Board of Advisers of the History and Political Economy Project.
